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Price: US$247.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Lxv, [1], 189Pp; Xi, [1], 248Pp. 24.8 X16 Cm. Later 1793 Issue, Without Advertisement Leaf For Stockdale's "Gay's Fables" And With Corrected Page Number For P.198 Of The First Vol. Quarter Polished Calf, Rules, Bl;Ack Spine Labels, Marbled Boards. Bindings Probably Original, Well Worn, Spine Labels Intact, Fraying, Front Board Of Vol I Detached, Front Board Of Volume Ii Held Only By The Cords. Pages Generally Bright And Clean, But With Small Areas Of Foxing On Some Pages, And Faint Offsetting Of Plates (Tissue Guards Are Not Present). Ownership Signatures On Title Pages. Each Volume With Bookplates 12 1/2 Cm X 11 1/2 Cm Designed For The Artist William R. A Hays By Franz Von Bayros (1866 – 1924), An "Austrian Commercial Artist, Illustrator, And Painter, Best Known For His Controversial "Tales At The Dressing Table" Portfolio. He Belonged To The Decadent Movement In Art, Often Utilizing Erotic Themes And Phantasmagoric Imagery. Bayros Was Born In Zagreb, In Present-Day Croatia, Then Part Of The Austro-Hungarian Empire. At The Age Of Seventeen, He Passed The Entrance Examination For The Vienna Academy With Eduard Von Engerth. Bayros Mixed In Elegant Society And Soon Belonged To The Circle Of Friends Of Johann Strauss Ii, Whose Stepdaughter Alice He Married In 1896. The Next Year, Bayros Moved To Munich. In 1904, He Gave His First Exhibition In Munich, Which Was A Great Success. From 1904 Until 1908, He Travelled To Paris And Italy For Further Studies. Returning To Vienna, He Felt Himself A Stranger. The Outbreak Of The First World War Came As Yet Another Setback For Bayros. " (Wikipedia).
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. 110 Fables, each with an engraved illustration, plus two engraved title pages with vignettes. 8vo, old speckled calf, neatly rebacked retaining the original spines and gilt-lettered spine labels. Brunet I, 103. Ink ownership signature on blank leaf in Vol. I and at the head of the title page of Vol. II; text age-toned throughout with some scattered light foxing.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.43 + shipping
Description: With 112 wood engravings on plates (including title), lxv, 189, xi, 248 p. Title verso and table of content slightly stained, light marks of the illustrations on following pages, few pages with slight kink on the upper end, otherwise very fine copy with excellent and decorative binding. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 4°, decorative modern half-leatherbinding on 5 bands with gold-embossing and red leather-title on spine.
Seller: Buch & Cafe Antiquarius, Bonn, NRW, Germany
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Fables of Aesop, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with one Hundred Twelve Plates. Two Volumes. London. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly. 1793. Both volumes bound in early (perhaps original) full leather bindings with faded gold lettering and decoration on the spines, gold borders on the boards. Marbled endpapers (reinforced at the gutters with white tape). Front board of volume 1 detached but present, with armorial bookplate of Julius Caesar Besnard. Back cover of volume 2 detached but present. 6.5" x 10.5". 189 & 248 pages. 1 plate missing (page 93) of 112. Plates are extraordinarily detailed and well printed. Each measures just over 3" x 4". There is one plate illustrating each fable. Little or no foxing, but pages are more toned at the edges than the centers.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. 110 Fables, each with an engraved illustration, plus two engraved title pages with vignettes. 8vo, old diced calf with extra gilt spines, expertly rebacked retaining the original spines but with all four gilt-lettered spine labels absent; all edges gilt. Brunet I, 103. The line containing the date of publication is trimmed in Vol. I but not Vol. II. A few minor smudges to text; light scuffing to leather; both volumes tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
unknown. AESOP'S FABLES Illustrated with 112 PLATES John Stockdale ANCIENT STORIES. Generic, 1793.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4th June 1793 first Stockdale edition 2 volumes in leather front board vol 2 detached. Boards vol 1 attached but tender. page 198 vol 1 misnumbered. Book plates to front pastedowns. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$514.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two Volumes. lxv (iv) (i) 1-181; xi 1-248. 2 engraved vignette titles and 110 plates. Contemporary full speckled calf with contrasting black morocco labels on spine. A neat repair to the title page of volume two. A presentation inscription can be found on the front endpaper dated 1825. A light damp stain to one of the corners in volume two. This is the John Stockdale first edition.
Seller: Roger Collicott Books, Widecombe in the Moor, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volume set 4th June 1793 Stockdale in gilt ruled pebbled full leather bindings, dentelles and marbled endpapers. 5 hub spine all edges gilt. Bookplate to front paste down. oversized and overweight. d34 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$799.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked, marbled endpages. Two volumes in one. Some foxing; bookplate, old PO name. Seventy copperplates, twelve engraved by Blake, includes frontis to volume 1. A tall copy of the first Blake edition, with the eleven page list of subscribers, and ad on the final page for Barlow's Aesop Fables. First issue, with the long "S. "; quarto
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Aesop. The Fables Of Aesop, With A Life Of The Author, Volumes I & II. John Stockdale, 1793.
Price: US$1157.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: calf boards with gilt tooling around edges, gilt title to spine and raised bands, nice clean condition, pen name and dated 1852 front end-paper, end-papers tanned, illustrated title page foxing spots, majority pages clean with light tanning where illustrations are, volume I lxiv + 189pp, last page incorrectly numbered 891, volume II ilustrated title page dated 4th June 1793 by publisher, page is slightly tanned, xi + 248pp. last page tanned, with 112 illustrations throughout the two volumes, overall VG condition, more pictures on request
Seller: Tilly's Bookshop, Haydock, MER, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST Stockdale edition, first issue with the long "s" throughout; 2 volumes, large 8vo (270 x 165mm). VERY SCARCE Large Paper Copy. 2 Engraved title-pages and 110 plates (All 112 plates are in fabulous, unmarked condition; there is no foxing and the volumes are internally clean). Some leaves are slightly browned. Leather boards are slightly worn and previous owner's bookplates are present. Both volumes are bound in early (perhaps original) full leather bindings with faded gold lettering and decoration on the spines, gold borders on the boards. Page 198 of Vol I is misprinted as 891; the text is by Samuel Croxall. A very good, collector's copy of the richly illustrated, first edition of the famous Stockdale edition.
Seller: Timeless Tales Rare Books, Acton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 2 vol., Large 8vo, 11 x 7 in. (278 x 178 mm); pp. lxv, 189 (misnumbered 891); advertisement, xi, 248; engraved vignettes on title page of each vol. and 110 other plates, one for each fable, by various engravers including Skelton and Barrett, J Chapman, Clarke, J. Smith, some unsigned. Vol. 2 contains the advertisement for the publication of The Fables by John Gay by the same publisher and the same year. Offset to some pages from engraved plates (tissue guards not present) and very occasional foxing. Handsome later binding in green crushed morocco by F. Bedford (gilt stamped on turn-in of Vol. 1) with gilt fillets on boards, decorative motifs on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, 5 raised bands, spines elaborately gilt and tooled, gilt title, t.e.g., rest uncut. [Brunet I, 103; Lowndes, I, p. 17; ESTC T84992; Bentley, Blake Books, 460]. A beautiful edition with all 110 engravings by over 30 engravers and two vignette title pages. In his comprehensive study Blake Books, G. E. Bentley mentions that this edition was advertised at the end of the 1793 Stockdale edition of John Gay's Fables, as containing Blake engravings, although Blake did not sign any of the plates. The elegant binding is by Francis Bedford (1799-1883) who was much beloved by patrons of the English upper class. Many of his choicest productions are imitations of the work of the great French bookbinders of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries Bedford himself considered that an edition of Dante was his chef d'oeuvre. (Dictionary of National Biography, suppl. I, pp. 162-63).
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$8361.41 + shipping
Description: Two vols, pp.[2], lxv, [1], 189, [1]; [2], xi, [1], 248, with an illustrative engraved title-page to each volume ('The' cropped from head of volume I), and 110 further engraved plates; embellished with an additional manuscript title-page in volume one, titles to each fable illuminated and decorated with flowers and foliage or emblematic tools, decorative initials and endpieces, elaborate decorative border to the first fable in each volume, the other text leaves within double ruled borders in blue, gilt borders to some of the engravings; a very good copy in early diced calf, gilt tooled borders, rebacked, joints rubbed; calligraphic ownership inscription of JA(?)F Fuller 1819.Second Stockdale edition, a paginary reprint of the first with the text reset using a short 's' throughout; the translation was that of Samuel Croxall. Stockdale's Aesop was notable for the extensive suite of illustrations, with plates by some thirty engravers including Stothard and Landseer, but an early owner has distinguished this copy with an elaborate scheme of hand-coloured decoration, very finely executed though not always relevant to the fable it accompanies. The titles to each fable are overpainted in red and gilt, and decorated with elaborate headpieces and/or borders. Endpieces include animals (owls pulling a chariot, several dogs, a guinea pig, a goat eating leaves), flowers, fruit, insects, and birds; and the small decorative initials include flowers, feathers, and a witch on a broomstick. Brunet I, col. 103; Lowndes I, p. 17. Language: English
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom